Antonyms for plow

Grammar : Verb

Spell : plou

Phonetic Transcription : plaʊ

Definition of plow

Origin : late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cf. Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.
Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow." As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.

verb dig up ground for cultivation

Example sentences :

He said he had got to go up to Joe Charnick's to get his plow.
Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

This was something of which the yokels, or men of the plow, often complained.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.
Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley

I have put my hand to the plow, and it shall not be withdrawn.
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

But he had his wakeness same as a common man, and it was the Plow Inn at Ramsey.
Extract from : « Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon » by Hall Caine

You are too good a horse to drag the plow on this poor little farm.
Extract from : « Rodney, the Ranger » by John V. Lane

They also made her plow, the same as any of the men on the plantation.
Extract from : « Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States » by Various

His mission was considered to be as purely mechanical as that of the ox which pulls the plow.
Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

Said it made him sick to see a gal like that a-staggerin' after a plow.
Extract from : « Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) » by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The plow was taken down the river in a canoe, while the oxen were driven by land.
Extract from : « Old Fort Snelling » by Marcus L. Hansen

Synonyms for plow

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